(of a stain) relating to living tissue outside of the body
supravital in American English
(ˌsuːprəˈvaitl)
adjective
Histology
pertaining to or involving a staining method for a preparation of living cells
Word origin
[1915–20; supra- + vital]This word is first recorded in the period 1915–20. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: conditioning, costar, feedback, markup, takeoutsupra- is a prefix meaning “above, over” (supraorbital) or “beyond the limits of, outside of” (supramolecular; suprasegmental)
Examples of 'supravital' in a sentence
supravital
After cryopreservation, the samples were thawed and evaluated for hiposmotic test, supravital staining, slow termoresistance test and for fluorescent stain.
Leonardo Franco Martins, Rogério Oliveira Pinho, Renan Moreira Paraizo, Renan Reisde Oliveira, Erick Fonseca Castilho, José Domingos Guimarães 2011, 'Avaliação de diferentes osmolaridades de soluções hiposmóticas e tempos de incubaçãono teste hiposmótico do sêmen de touros Nelore Evaluation of different osmolarityamong hiposmotic solutions and incubation time in hiposmotic test of Nellore bullssemen', Revista Brasileira de Zootecniahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-35982011000700017. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)